10 Best Zombie Books to Read This Year

The World War Z is an oral history of a Zombie war. It is an American fiction horror novel by Max Brooks.

It is #1 Bestseller on New York Times, USA Today and Wall street journal. Max Brooks has written the book in such a realistic write up that it seems the zombie apocalypse is going on.

You might have seen the movie of World War Z several times but reading the book is even more enjoyable. Having sold over 2 million copies, it is indeed a worth reading zombie book if you haven’t done already.

Even the critics have been praising this book as “An absolute must-have Zombie Book“. He has gone in precise detail and authenticity. It seems as if it was for real.

World War Z brings the finest and incredible story in history of human civilization. The book starts with rumors from China about a pandemic.

The cases starts to multiply and the condition starts to worsen. A mindless man eating horrifically humanity induces a sense of reality to the book.

A lot of people have not heard about this Zombie book. Only a few of you might have seen the movie “The Girl with all the gifts”. If you have seen the movie before you would likely not read the book. But the truth is that the book is really powerful and nothing like the movie.

So if you haven’t read the book just because the movie was not that special. I would suggest you to give it a chance and believe me M.R. Carey won’t disappoint you.

The Girl with all the gifts sis a uniquely heartfelt zombie book that you won’t resist to stop. The story is about a girl “Melanie” who is a special girl and goes to special children school.

An outbreak comes and people all over the world get infected by a fungus that takes over people brain and turning them in to zombies. Melanie and her friends are also affected but in a different way.

While they have appetite for human flesh, they still think, love and not that deadly.

As all book lovers know, No horror story is complete without Stephen King. So here we have a zombie based novel – Cell.

I won’t say it was the best read i had of Stephen king. He had some of the best novels i have ever read but this was quite a disappointment from such a renowned and excellent horror book writer.  

He is well known as the King of Horror and Suspense. The story was okay and it was one of the fastest developing zombie stories we have ever read.

The story does starts with pretty much good excitement but the plot twist was just an average one.

Not that its a terrible zombie book, its well written, but we just expected a little more in the story.

The story of Cell is around a zombie virus named the Pulse which is able to spread via cellphone. So a mobile can turn you into a hungry, angry freak zombie.

So the premise of the story of the novel is that mobile phones become the harbinger of technology warfare, messing up with their brains and leaving them with aggression and desire for destruction.

Amidst of a ruined civilization, R is happily living a normal life, he passes his time in collecting souvenirs, listening to music, enjoying escalator rides and occasionally feasting on warm bodies.

The only problem is that this is a normal Zombie-life, R has no life, no pulse and what he thought until now was that he has no feelings like all his mates.

Julie who was a prisoner by R, is totally opposite, she is lively, vibrant, full of positive energy.

R’s feelings are about to change, though she appeals to him as a delicious meal, R decides to save Julie from his other mates. Finally, they developed a bond of love.

What will happen when you among a few more people are the last humans on Earth, taking refuge in a High School.

Would this shelter be enough to save you from the dead monsters pounding on the door outside?

All it takes is one little bite to transform you into the scariest dead version of yourself. This is the story of those 6 students who found themselves in this scary situation.

In this psychological thriller, among them is Sloane Price, a girl shattered by the cruelty of the world, who has nothing to lose and all is set to take the path to suicide.

As the events take dangerous sprite, the other 5 students make verdicts of life and death.

This book features Major Sergeant Reed Beckham who has survived a considerable amount of terrible missions as the pioneer of his Delta Force Team.

Suddenly the team finds itself in a catastrophe that unfurls when they find that tainted zombies have begun to spread across urban communities, threatening human existence.

This hellfire breaks when the group is sent in to examine a super-mystery research office that is turned dark.

Filled with nonstop action and horror, the book keeps you glued to it to find who survives, the world, or the evil dead?

The author has brilliantly woven incredible and interesting characters in the plot, the series indulges the reader with intriguing scenes, dialogues and zombie action.

It’s a fusion of science, nature and fiction which will take your reading buds to another level.

Alice’s life took a minute to turn upside down. From wonderful to disastrous, innocent to wrecked. All her loved ones were gone in the blink of an eye.

It was about time for her to accept that Zombies are real. They exist. They can sway away happiness, dreams, goals, life in a matter of seconds and all you could do is to wait and watch your world-shattering into pieces.

How could she start a new life when she was being followed by her father’s demons?

Alice was all set to avenge her family, but she has to become friends with the bad guys to learn the art of surviving. All her focus is to send the Zombies back to graves for good. 

Renee’ couldn’t be happier, at sweet 16 she was considered the most beautiful girl in school, had the cutest boyfriend, went for vacations and had all she wished for always.

Her happiness turns into grief when she finds her parents murdered in the middle of a forest. She is sent away to a Gothic boarding academy afterwards by her grandfather.

Soon Renee realizes there is something mystical about the academy. Nothing is as normal as they are pretending it to be.

Students start disappearing, strange groups are patrolling the corridors at night, horrific expressions of students, secret conversations between the faculty, all of this is making Renee curious.